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TOPIC: RESEARCH REGARDING SAMSARA AND CHRISTIAN EVIL |
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Posted on Mar.19.2007 @ 09:21PM EDT by lostatsun
I am researching the following topic: relating the notion of samsara to estrangement by Paul Tillich. This is for a dialogue seminar. I think that Christians realize their demise when they are in a separation in depth from their Christian God: they don't follow their chosen path and practice. In this way, they live out their lives in hell and not attaining a newer level of awareness. Since I am relatively new to this area, I could use some help. Any thoughts?
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Mar.20.2007
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Mar.20.2007
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That ticket is your karmic encounter with the power of consumerism. |
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Reply from stephen
Mar.20.2007
10:12AM EDT
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“The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.”
There is a chapter on Buddhism in Dialogues of Paul Tillich. By Mary Ann Stenger and Richard H. Stone. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2002.
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Mar.20.2007
10:17AM EDT
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See? ok try another search engine with another search see what comes up? amazon's good for some book reviews and there are other websites that you can rip tons of relevant stuff from. Try a DevonAgent search. |
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Mar.20.2007
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Reply from -----0
Mar.20.2007
12:17PM EDT
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the chosen path is the one we follow - as far as there is any choice |
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Reply from ______
Mar.20.2007
12:28PM EDT
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Right. Just did a DEVONagent search using the title which came up with 36 (result) documents from scanning 103 pages, 14752 KB done. All words in title are highlighted in the docs. In the digest, occur words like, 'death, Jesus, body, life, soul, birth, world, Christ, belief, liberation, Judaism, faith, Nirvana, rebirth, existence, cycle, karma, evil, Buddhist, world, religion, holy, hell, divine, reality, contemporary, age...' this list is not exhaustive, nor in any particular order. It does look better in its original format so you really have to be here for best results. |
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Reply from boymonk
Mar.20.2007
01:55PM EDT
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I don't think there are any new levels of awareness, just the same old one we are here with, the same that everyone has. Is my awareness different than yours? Uh, no, I no think so. Because if it were, that would mean there was some further stepping back to do, so we could just step back... and then it'd be the same! :) |
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Mar.20.2007
02:12PM EDT
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Reply from lehish
Mar.20.2007
02:57PM EDT
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eh eh eh eh ;) |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.20.2007
04:02PM EDT
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how do you do this? and why do you do this? |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.20.2007
04:17PM EDT
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it was at lunch when the word ambiguity was used... But I did not know the word so it was explained to me... like, "wanting to be with and not wanting to be with at the same time"..... but there was talk about leaving this life behind and going elsewhere... but I do not know how one can do this... somehow it just doen't make sense to me.... I understand the "connectedness" of things...I just do not understand what this is all for. |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.20.2007
04:20PM EDT
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I suppose this is it |
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Mar.20.2007
07:11PM EDT
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Reply from lehish
Mar.20.2007
07:17PM EDT
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Quote: "how do you do this? and why do you do this?"
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Reply from lehish
Mar.20.2007
07:18PM EDT
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Quote: "form"
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he he he he |
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Reply from ______
Mar.21.2007
06:30AM EDT
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“The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity".
Failure and success are egotistical notions conflicting with the ego-transcending discipline of meditation. The feelings of success and failure are symptomatic of the ego's clinging sense of individuality bearing an existential sense of shame which is linked to feelings of loneliness. |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.21.2007
07:29AM EDT
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Ego transcending= achievement / Egotism= failure...?
'Clinging'= failure / 'Releasing' = achievement...?
Is suffering not a failure relative to achieving an end to it?
...Oh, clever little 'ego'.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.21.2007
11:23AM EDT
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They're unavoidable - this is the nature of paradox. If you're looking for meaning - the meaning of suffering is in the way it is healed. Words exist for their meaning, when you know the meaning you can forget the words. |
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Reply from ______
Mar.21.2007
11:29AM EDT
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And sorrow prepares the ground of the heart for joy.
dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.21.2007
11:33AM EDT
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:) |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.21.2007
11:40AM EDT
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Quote: "
Quote: "how do you do this? and why do you do this?"
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what makes these words funny? |
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Mar.21.2007
11:55AM EDT
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.21.2007
12:02PM EDT
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the attached ha ha ? |
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Reply from Lynnoh
Mar.21.2007
12:03PM EDT
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but I didn't feel it |
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Reply from lehish
Mar.21.2007
06:47PM EDT
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
10:09AM EDT
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Clever little 'egos', if only we saw that they weren't so bad.
Regharharharharharhards,
Hahahahaharry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
10:47AM EDT
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That's what the little hitler wants you to think, cuz hego anti-love. And watch out when they all start getting the collective ego together on some righteous cause which invovles damaging the other, specially with guns and bombs and lies and shit cuz then we got asuras doin' satan's work. |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
11:25AM EDT
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Yes, Hitler took himself rather seriously, and then other people took him and themselves rather seriously, and then....
The self imposed slavery of ideology and everything that haemorrhages from it is more a tragic than a silly game.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
11:35AM EDT
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Satan? You just done 'his' work.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
11:43AM EDT
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The historical Hitler liked to play all kinds of ego-games, apparently, but I don't think the holocaust was a 'tragic game'. Everyone has a little hitler though, a dictator to keep up the whispering campaign.
"two little hitlers will fight it out until
one little hitler does the other one's will..."
That's how it works. It's what the other one respects and bows the will to. |
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
11:45AM EDT
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Quote: "Satan? You just done 'his' work.
Regards,
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You think I'm a collective ego now do you? |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
11:45AM EDT
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Is that so.
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Harry.
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
11:49AM EDT
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All life, including death, strikes me as a tragic game. This isn't ideology or the work of some Guru, God or Devil though, so please don't take it too seriously as well.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
11:49AM EDT
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Yep. Yep it is. |
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
11:51AM EDT
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That's your game ideology. I'm just staying on topic. |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
11:54AM EDT
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If ideology only remains a game, a harmless one, then I see nothing to make a fuss over. I'm glad you see ideology as a game at least. Monopoly is generally more complicated (and more interesting) than many celebrated ideologies.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
12:05PM EDT
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No, I'm not saying that at all, as you know. I'm saying that you too believe in an ideology, game ideology, because to you everything is a game. I don't necessarily believe that your view of the holocaust as a 'tragic game' is helpful or harmless. |
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Reply from Woodsman
Mar.22.2007
12:08PM EDT
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Does no good to generalize. Even in hell there can be purpose. |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
12:15PM EDT
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Well, there you go.
Ideology? But, my good Grumbling Rustic, does it strike you as a game with any discernible rules? The 'rules', like ideology, seem very relative from any number of perspectives. From the view in Zazen they don't seem so important.
Its terribly serious isn't it? (Quiver, Quiver)
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
12:18PM EDT
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Why do you think that I am 'your good grumbling rustic'? Is there something wrong with you? |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
12:21PM EDT
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I don't know, probably. Nobody's perfect you know.
Regards,
Harry.
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Reply from ______
Mar.22.2007
12:28PM EDT
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ah, for a second there, I thought I'd signed up for something, been appropriated. |
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Reply from HarryB
Mar.22.2007
12:30PM EDT
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Maybe you were. Not my contract though.
Regards,
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Reply from Woodsman
Mar.26.2007
12:42PM EDT
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Nope. |
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Reply from whatzen
Mar.26.2007
01:18PM EDT
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Reply from whatzen
Mar.26.2007
01:35PM EDT
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bear foot
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Reply from Woodsman
Mar.26.2007
02:23PM EDT
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Nope
Scope
Pope
and, ah, dope
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Reply from Woodsman
Mar.26.2007
02:28PM EDT
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Hope
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The pig just shit on the drive.
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Reply from whatzen
Mar.26.2007
03:51PM EDT
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Nice piggy! Down boy down! |
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Reply from Woodsman
Mar.26.2007
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To late. You don't say, "down" to a pig. That's an insult. |
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Reply from whatzen
Mar.26.2007
05:28PM EDT
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And I thought I still had time. |
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